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battling the heat to reach the second round, Andy Murray said that | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the rules need to be looked at. That is in 15 minutes, after The Papers. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Hello. Welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
tomorrow. With me are freelance journalist Samira Shackle and Oliver | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Wright, the Whitehall editor of the Independent. Many of the front pages | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
are in now. We are going to start by looking at The Independent. It is | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
saying that by analysing census records it has found that there is | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
evidence that some immigrant groups are practising sex selective | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
abortions. The Daily Telegraph is leading on George Osborne warning | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
other EU countries that they must reform economies or face decline. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
The Daily Mirror devotes its entire front page to allegations of sexual | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
offences being faced by three celebrities, Coronation Street's | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
William Roache amongst them. The much anticipated French President's | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
press conference takes centre stage on the Guardian's cover, revealing | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
he had an awful lot to say, but not about his alleged affair. The Daily | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Express also leads on those three cases in which celebrities are | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
facing sexual offence charges. The photographs show the defendants, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Dave Lee Travis, William Roache and Rolf Harris. The Times leads on the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
same story, and shows Rolf Harris leaving court. The Daily Mail leads | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
on that story, calling it an extraordinary day, with three | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
reputation is at stake. We are going to start with that | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
story, the front cover of the Daily Mirror. Corrie Ken abused girl in TV | :01:42. | :01:53. | |
loo, is the headline. We have three different sex assault cases, linked | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
by one thing, it would seem, celebrity. We know in the two trials | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
that have started today, that of William Roache and Dave Lee Travis, | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
the prosecution have made it clear that they believe it is that | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
celebrity that the defendants used to cover their crimes? Absolutely. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
That is a common thread running through that. It is also something | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
that is being used in the defence, Dave Lee Travis's lawyers saying it | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
is his fame that is making him a target for these allegations. It is | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
obviously difficult to say anything much about it, really. But I think | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
we can be sure that it is going to run and run. Indeed. We have to be | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
careful in linking the three? The key point here is the timing of | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
this, it is entirely coincidental. While it is interesting and a good | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
story for news desks to put these three stories together, and it | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
sounds very dramatic, it could give the public the impression that | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
somehow these three are linked. But they are very different allegations. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
All of which took place at very different times in history, very | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
different geographical places, and they are separate places that will | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
be tried by separate juries and I think that is important. Indeed, | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
three very, very different investigations. Let's go on the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Independent. Very, very interesting story. The lost girls. Illegal | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
abortion is apparently, according to the Independent, widely used in some | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
UK ethnic minority immunities to prevent the birth of daughters? This | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
is a difficult and uncomfortable subject to report on and | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
investigate. This is something we have been doing for a number of | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
weeks. If you are going to run a story like this saying that, | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
basically, illegal abortions are prevalent within certain ethnic | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
minority communities, you want to be extremely sure of your facts. That | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
is what we have done and that is why we have taken... I mean, it is hard, | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
you can see the story and it looks like it has come yesterday, but in | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
fact this is a piece of work that has been sometime in the making. | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
What we did was we used the Office of National Statistics's census data | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
going from 2011. We looked particularly at second children from | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
both ethnic minority backgrounds and the general population. What we | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
found was that there was a statistical very -- variation | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
between boys and girls born in the event amenities. We show this to | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
statisticians. What we wanted to say was, is this statistically | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
significant? They said yes. You can extrapolate from the figures that | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
somewhere between 1400, and 1700 more boys than girls. That is the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
difference between the two taxes, which you should not expect to find. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Is this shocking? Well, I think anybody would expect to find the | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
abortion of children purely because they are female quite shocking in | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
itself. I think where we are talking about this issue, you have to | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
think, it is said of India that there are 60 million missing women, | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
as a result of female infanticide. When you have something on that | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
scale, I don't think you can expect it to disappear with immigration. | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
Obviously it is worth noting that, obviously any is too many, but this | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
is a small number in the context of the number of immigrants from ethnic | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
minorities in the UK. But I think you can't really expect those things | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
to disappear. I don't think that means you shouldn't... That is what | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
I mean about it being shocking, is it shopping? I think it is shocking, | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
but I don't think it is entirely unexpected or surprising. What is | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
pertinent about it is what we have found contradicts what the official | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
sources say. I suspect that is because of our methodology, that we | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
looked at second children rather than across the round. I don't think | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
they did that in their survey. I think this quite strongly makes the | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
argument that the government needs to look at this again. It is a | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
matter of huge public policy. Is this going to affect the debate | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
about whether or not pregnant women should be allowed to know the sex of | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
their babies before 13 weeks, up to 13 weeks? Of course, later on it is | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
much more difficult to get an abortion? I think that is the only | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
way that you can really limit this. It is difficult to enforce a ban on | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
sex selective abortion, because people could give another reason for | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
wanting an abortion once they know the gender. I think that debate | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
needs to reopen. But then you can't really stop people going abroad to | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
do it, I don't think you can stop people. You can make it more | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
difficult. I don't see any reason why, if you are going to become a | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
parent, you'd need to find out the sex of the child at ten or 13 weeks, | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
why you can't wait longer. Some people choose to wage the whole | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
time. A really interesting story. Let's go onto the Telegraph. Mr | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Osborne is lecturing the EU on reform. The Chancellor says that | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Europe must halt decline by backing business and cutting welfare | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
spending if Britain is to remain part of it. Clearly, he is setting | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
out his stall and making it clear to backbenchers that we are doing what | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
we can to reform Europe? George Osborne lecturing the EU. I think it | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
is another day, another story about Tory leadership pandering to the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Tory right on the Europe. I sort of wonder who in Europe is listening, | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
particularly saying that British mothership is going to be | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
conditional on job creation and welfare spending in Europe. I think | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
it is quite interesting that, since one of the central arguments from | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
the Tory Right is about British sovereignty, should we be telling | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
other states what to do if that is the art image? I totally agree. The | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
headline should say, Osborne playing to his own backbenchers by having | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
another go at the EU, but that would not fit. The serious point is that I | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
don't see any good way out of this for Cameron, Osborne ordered Tory | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
leadership. Despite what they are saying, they are pragmatists. They | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
realise that Britain, not in the EU, would be a total disaster for the | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
country and, in particular, business. They are now a locked into | :08:50. | :09:02. | |
this referendum. There is a sizeable portion of backbenchers that just | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
want out of there. They are not looking for any contra Mize. Even if | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
somebody is listening in Brussels, saying, we are going to reform, even | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
if they did make concessions and made changes that suit the | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
government, you don't think if they went into a referendum in 2015 or | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
wherever, with a new set of policies in place, that they would win? | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
Really? I don't think they'll win the concessions which Cameron's | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
backbenches believe and want him to win, which are frankly totally | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
impractical. I think almost intentionally they're so, that the | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
backbenchers are putting Cameron in such a position that nothing is good | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
enough, because they don't want to reform the EU. They actually just | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
want out. Interesting. We'll stick with the Telegraph. Hollande | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
anticipation, yes, but no satisfaction. This referring to his | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
press conference this year, where there's a lot of discussions about | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
his private life. He didn't want to discuss it. No, he doesn't. Would | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
anyone fault him for that? He wanted to discuss pretty much everything | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
else. What has amused me about this story is one thing that has come up | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
quite a lot is the differences it shows between the French political | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
landscape and the British one. I think it's quite difficult to | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
imagine British Prime Ministers being accused of having an affair | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
with a film star and not resigning, and threatening to sue the magazine | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
who published the allegations and I think it's quite interesting. We | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
have just brought up the cover there of the main French newspapers and | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
it's got a little bit at the top. Saying the affair is destabilising | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the man. There were lots of muderings from political hacks if | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
this was Britain if David Cameron had done such a thing he wouldn't | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
have had such an easy ride. The Prime Ministers don't do press | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
conferences. I just thought that the sketch is superb here. If Francois | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Hollande treats his women the way he treats his press conferences I feel | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
rather sorry for them! We'll go on to the front page of The Guardian. A | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
very French affair. I don't understand the papers. "Hollande has | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
a lot to say, except on one subject." Why should we be surprised | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
by that? Who wants to talk about their private life? It seems normal. | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
Normally people confirm or deny something if they're accused. He | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
hasn't. Maybe that's it. I find it a bit odd that asked whether he was | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
going to take his partner, who is the First Lady to America, he said, | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
"Well, I've jet to decide." It seems odd. OK. Thank you both. You'll be | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
back in an hour to look at the headlines. Many thanks for that. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Stay with us, because at the top of the hour, for the first time in four | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
years, inflation has fallen to the Bank of England's 2% rate, so for a | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
lot of people that could be good news. Labour are saying that we are | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
lagging far behind. Stay with us for that, but now it's Sportsday. | :12:29. | :12:45. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Katie Gornall. Coming up - we'll | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
have all the results from an eventful night in the FA Cup, as | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Norwich's season goes from bad to worse at Craven | :12:54. | :12:54. |